Burlington, ON — To help industries meet the ongoing challenge of workplace safety & regulatory compliance, Bosch Rexroth Canada is offering a free Safe Motion Seminar on six occasions between February 18 & April 14, 2009. The seminar, taking place in locations across the country, will demonstrate how worker safety can be greatly enhanced with drive-integrated machine safety functions.
The Safe Motion Seminar demonstrates technological & procedural machine safety concepts for control engineers, engineering managers, safety officers, maintenance supervisors, & machine designers. Particular emphasis is placed on applications such as machine tools, printing & converting, food & packaging, handling, metal forming & automated assembly, where protection of plant personnel against uncontrolled machine movements is crucial.
In addition to addressing workplace safety, the Safe Motion approach can improve uptime & productivity by offering an alternative to traditional safety procedures such as basically turning machines off & locking out to perform maintenance & changeovers.
“Safe Motion aims at building safe operating procedures right into machines & operating processes themselves,” explains Safe Motion seminar presenter Allen Rutherford, senior applications engineer at Bosch Rexroth. “Just turning off a machine & locking out for service or routine cell entry, & then turning it back on again, can be both unsafe & inefficient.”
Safe Motion is built around integrating safety into the drives, using commercially available machine control products. This makes it less hard for industries to improve workplace safety, ensure compliance, generate comprehensive safety procedures, & even design or retrofit safer, more efficient machines. “This seminar will help everyone from floor supervisors to OEMs & machine designers view machine control in a new light,” Rutherford says.
For end users of moving machinery, the seminar offers productive ways to maximize workplace safety. For machine designers, the Safe Motion seminar presents new ideas for succeeding in a competitive market where safety & compliance are essential.
The Safe Motion seminar takes place between 9 a.m. & 2 p.m., with breakfast & lunch included, & features slide & video presentations as well as live demonstrations of Safe Motion-equipped machines, including a two-axis linear motion method demo with integrated Safety on Board technology that can be stopped & started without rebooting the machine. The seminar also provides an introduction to Bosch Rexroth’s in-depth Safe Motion training sessions.